“…[4] Additionally,w er ecently disclosed the unique property of neutral eosin Y, which can function as an ideal direct HATp hotocatalyst owing to its visible-light-absorption, metal-free,r eadily available,a nd low-cost nature. [5] It has been applied to the CÀHalkylation, which accommodates an extremely broad substrate scope owing to no limitation on redox potentials. [5] In view of the electrophilic nature of the oxygen radical in the photoexcited eosin Ytriplet state,itwas anticipated that this catalytic HATp rocedure might be extended to abstraction of protons from hydridic Si À H bonds,t oa ccess transient and reactive silyl radicals for the synthesis of value-added silicon reagents.…”